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Collocations for echo - noun

ADJECTIVE

distant, faint
clear, distinct, loud, strong (often figurative)
There are clear echoes of Elvis Presley in his vocal style.
hollow
eerie, ghostly
The initial reports had an eerie echo of the attacks two weeks earlier.
ghostly echoes of Virginia's past
returning
The bat compares the sound of its cry with the sound of the returning echo.

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VERB + echo

hear, listen for, listen to
We could just hear a faint echo.
make, produce, send back, send out
Their footsteps on the bare boards sent out hollow echoes.
contain, have (both figurative)
The story has echoes of Alice in Wonderland.
find (figurative)
The political upheavals find an echo in the art of the time.

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echo + VERB

bounce back, bounce off sth, rebound, reverberate
The echoes reverberated through the auditorium.
come back, return
An echo came back from the walls of the building.
die, die away
The echo slowly died away.

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PREPOSITION

echo from
the echo from a brick wall

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Collocations for echo - verb

1. come back as an echo

ADVERB

faintly, slightly, softly
loudly
eerily, strangely
ominously
hollowly
The sound echoed hollowly through the tall empty house.
still
back
Their voices echoed back across the water.

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VERB + echo

seem to

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PREPOSITION

across
The protest seemed to echo across the room.
around, round (esp. BrE)
His voice echoed around the room.
down
Her footsteps echoed down the corridor.
in
Her screams still echoed in his ears.
off
The call echoed off the walls of the cave.
through
Laughter echoed through the house.
with
The great hall echoed with laughter.

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2. repeat/agree with sb/sth

ADVERB

exactly
widely
an opinion that is widely echoed in the tabloid press
clearly
merely, only, simply
In his statement, the police chief merely echoed the views of his deputy.
incredulously
‘He's gone!’ Viv echoed incredulously.

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VERB + echo

seem to
Their ideas seem to echo our own.

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Echo is used with these nouns as the subject:
applause, bang, boom, crack, cry, explosion, footstep, gunfire, roar, scream, shout, sound, thunder, voice, word

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Echo is used with these nouns as the object:
concern, refrain, sentiment, view, word

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